Ancillary Tasks - Photo Editing

This shows the process of how I tried to make a picture of the front of school look worn out and old. This was in order to try and portray that they may not be helping the students as well with their post 16 education choices. A few ideas I am looking at how to portray my documentary in the double page newspaper spread and advert. Below are a few photographs of different colours and layers that I chose to edit the photo with in order to change the perception and portrayal of the school, simply through the colour of the photograph. It took several goes for me to achieve this and I followed an online tutorial.

 

I have had some feedback from these photographs and I think that it doesn't give a gritty view or look of the school. Despite the editing I have made the photograph crisper. I also think it may be due to the way in which I shot the picture and what part of the school that I took pictures off. I need to have a complete reshoot in order to capture the ideal photograpgh. I need to think about the positioning at which I take the picture, for example if there is enough of a plain area for writing and text to be positioned properly. So in the photograph above I could think about exposing more sky so that I had somewhere to add text, especially if this was for the newspaper advert.